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"Any Type" not supported

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
openapi, python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start with openapi_core/schemas.py around line 179 and openapi_core/enums.py around line 27 to trace how an empty schema spec is inferred and how schema types are represented. Support the OpenAPI Any Type semantics for a schema whose value is {}, then verify that such input is accepted without being forced to object.

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Description

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"Any Type" is part of the specification ( https://swagger.io/docs/specification/data-models/data-types/#any ), however this library does not support it.

The problem seems that, when creating the Schema for a schema spec that has {} as its value (meaning "anything can be used as input here"), it is created with an object type - see here: https://github.com/p1c2u/openapi-core/blob/master/openapi_core/schemas.py#L179 - it tries to infer "object" by default.

After checking the schema types ( https://github.com/p1c2u/openapi-core/blob/master/openapi_core/enums.py#L27 ) I can see that "any" is not there.

Please let me know if you need help with implementing that.

Thanks,
Diogo

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